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“The way we are living,
timorous or bold,
will have been our life.”
― Seamus Heaney

“I didn't have the perfect motherly instinct, because I was mourning the loss of a life I never had a change to live. I'm not excusing myself. And I"m not saying I'm sorry. I'm just saying how it was.”
― Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story

“Bessie, if you try on a dress and you don’t immediately want to parade outside the dressing room and show it off to everyone in the store, take it off and forget it ever existed.”
― Bess Kalb, Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story

“You are not fool’s gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Tara Westover, Educated